A permanent Arnold license key which must be hosted using an RLM license server and can be distributed to multiple clients.
€1095

Arnold Node-locked

A permanent Arnold license key which will work on one machine. Limited to 2 licenses per company/freelancer.
€730
12 months maintenance & support fee included

Doesn't say anything about render nodes. I wonder if you can use it with Team Render. This new pricing is also probably available for Maya and Softimage since the plugins are free and you buy the render.

C4DtoA is the only render plug-in that supports both animation and single-frame distributed rendering in Team Render, allowing the use of all computers in a local network to speed-up Arnold rendering.

Our ex-XSI Stephen Blair answered my question:

You need an Arnold license for each machine that renders.

Now ... just as comparison. On V-Ray for C4D you get free render nodes. On V-Ray for 3ds Max you get 1 workstation and 5 render nodes for 1500 Euro. With Arnold, you would spend 4500 Euro. I think Renderman (once it comes out for C4D later this year) will be cheaper as well.

It's amusing that they always showcase arnold in simple exterior scenes with directly lit objects which are piece of cake for any raytracer. But than you try it in real scene with a lot of indirect lighting, 8 bounces and glossy everywhere and BAM, arnold just dies...

Nox wrote:It's amusing that they always showcase arnold in simple exterior scenes with directly lit objects which are piece of cake for any raytracer. But than you try it in real scene with a lot of indirect lighting, 8 bounces and glossy everywhere and BAM, arnold just dies...

I have the opposite experience, the more complexity, the more arnold shines.
What kind of scene did you want to render?

Don't think Solid Angle care if more people start using C4D or not. Remember this has been developed by Solid Angle, not Maxon.
What's true is that if you already have some Arnold licenses than you can be as flexible as you like:

- Houdini, Maya, Soft, C4D etc.

I think we underestimate how many people use C4D. Solid Angle already own the VFX market, now they can sell licenses to the thousands of design boutiques studios around the world.
They are even allowing to only buy 1 or 2 licenses so this makes sense in this case.

SamHowell wrote:Maybe this move has nothing to do with pleasing the existing user base but rather is designed to attract a wider VFX user base.

There were connections before, built in or third party, like Mental Ray plugin or built in Renderman translator. But, hard to find a sign of real usage, especially for second. My bet, mainstream for c4d renderers in future, will stay where it is today. V-Ray, Octane, Maxwell here and there.

The renderer "turtle" used by this scene, is not currently available. The "turtle" renderer will be used instead.